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In front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and offices of human rights organizations located in Berlin, the Azerbaijani political emigrants living in Germany have held protest actions, demanding to release the activists who had been expelled from Germany and arrested in Baku.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has informed about sending another detachment of volunteers to participate in the Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

The Hajj quota for Russian Muslims, a significant part of which are pilgrims from Dagestan, has become twice as small as it was before the pandemic. A total of 11,318 Muslims from Russia will be able to make the pilgrimage to Mecca this year.

On the fifth day of their hunger strike held in Yerevan, two activists have gathered over 1400 signatures against the attempts to change the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. The collection of signatures makes it possible to estimate the number of supporters of the action, Arthur Avagyan, one of the hunger-strikers, has stated.

Nver Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan, who had gone on a hunger strike in order to draw Armenians' attention to the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh status, have stopped their action. They intend to continue their struggle by other methods.

Zaurbek Zhambekov is suspected of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after a policewoman complained that Zaurbek's daughter had torn off a sticker in the shape of the letter Z from her car.

Senior sailor Isa Khalimbekov perished in Ukraine, and his family received the Order of Courage for him, the administration of the Sergokala District of Dagestan reported.

Junior Sergeant Dmitry Podoprigora perished in Ukraine, and a memorial plaque was installed on the school building in the village of Kazgulak, where he studied, the administration of the Turkmen municipal district reported.

The Ombudsperson of the Ulyanovsk Region has announced that 22 convicts in the Dimitrovgrad prison wrote declarations about going on a hunger strike, and 38 more people participate in the protest action unofficially.

Azerbaijani human rights defender Rufat Safarov was not allowed to attend the trial in a case against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party. Rufat Safarov had a quarrel with law enforcers in a yard of the Baku court, as he tried to argue against the refusal in access to the court building.

An agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed only after the public discussion in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assures. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev threatens to reconsider the attitude towards the territorial integrity of Armenia if Yerevan refuses a peace treaty.

Nver Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan, who are on the fourth day of their hunger strike in Yerevan in protest against the attempts to change the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, have gathered nearly a thousand signatures of their supporters.

Law enforcers have accused Olga Gorelik, a former employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, went to a pacifist picket in Moscow, of discrediting the Russian Army.

A court in Baku has jailed Samir Ashurov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), for four months. He denied the accusation of attacking a man with a knife and claimed that he had been beaten up by law enforcers.

Valery Badmaev, an oppositional journalist and human rights defender, has demanded from investigators to check the information about the use of physical force during the detention of Altan Ochirov, an employee of the administration of the city of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has found Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of preparing explosions and attacks on law enforcers in Makhachkala and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

The Staropromyslovskiy District Court of Grozny has extended until June 12 the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, who is accused of attacking a law enforcer.

The commander of the North-Caucasian District of the "Rosgvargiya" (Russian National Guard) and the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have handed Orders of Courage over to the families of the KBR natives who perished in the special operation.

The Southern District Military Court has left Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, accused of financing terrorism, in custody for other three months.

The Azerbaijan’s authorities were addressed by 114 citizens of Ukraine, who left the country after the start of the special military operation by the Russian troops. The people who came from Ukraine applied for refugee status.